Saturday, August 30, 2014

Experimental Drug Would Help Fight Ebola if Supply Increases, Study Finds - NYTimes.com

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A new study provides strong evidence that the experimental drug given to two American aid workers stricken with Ebola in Africa really w...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Chili peppers for a healthy gut: Spicy chemical may inhibit gut tumors

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In continuation of my update on   capsaicin Researchers report that dietary capsaicin – the active ingredient in chili pep...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Pesticide DDT linked to slow metabolism, obesity and diabetes, mouse study finds -- ScienceDaily

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A new study in mice is the first to show that developmental exposure to DDT increases the risk of females later developing metabolic syndr...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Researchers uncover how malaria parasite becomes resistant to fosmidomycin drug

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Researchers have uncovered a way the malaria parasite becomes resistant to an investigational drug. The discovery, at Washington Universit...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

Antifungal drug resistance evoked through RNAi-dependent epimutations

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Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi can evade treatment by acquiring mutations in the genes targeted by antibiotics or antifungal drugs...
Friday, August 1, 2014

Flamel Technologies Announces FDA Approval of Vazculep

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 Flamel Technologies (NASDAQ: FLML) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's New Dr...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

FDA Approves Beleodaq (belinostat) for Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Beleodaq (belinostat) for the treatment of patients with peripheral T-cell lymphoma (P...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Protein once seen as promising anti-cancer compound helps to stabilize neural circuits

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Researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered that endostatin, a protein that once aroused intense interest as a possible cancer ...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

FDA Approves Ryanodex for the Treatment of Malignant Hyperthermia

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Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Eagle” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq:EGRX) today announced that the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...
Monday, July 28, 2014

High-dose fluticasone effective against eosinophilic esophagitis, study shows...

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I continuation of y update on Fluticasone .. Results from a clinical trial show that high doses of the corticosteroid fluticasone prop...
Friday, July 25, 2014

Bowel cancer breakthrough may benefit thousands of patients

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Re searchers at Queen's University have made a significant breakthrough that may benefit patients with bowel cancer.  Dr Sandra v...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Zydelig Approved for Three Types of Blood Cancer

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 Zydelig ( idelalisib ) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat relapsed forms of blood cancer, including chro...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

New combination drug controls tumor growth, metastasis in mice...

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Researchers at UC Davis, University of      Massachusetts  and Harvard  Medical  School  have created a combination drug that controls bo...
Monday, July 14, 2014

Liver Cancer Drug Fails to Live Up to Early Promise...

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In continuation of my update on everolimus Although it looked promising in early studies, the drug everolimus didn't improve survi...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

New Inhaled Drug Shows Promise Against Asthma, Allergies...........

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A new inhaled medication has the potential to treat mild asthma and allergies by interrupting the production of an immune system protein t...